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Cut Scores: Common Concerns

Quick cut score overview. The State Board of Education adopted new cut scores.These new scores indicate whether or not a student is on track for career and college (11th grade) or on track for success in the next grade (3-8th grade).Last step in a series of initiatives to increase content standard

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Cut Scores: Common Concerns

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    1. Cut Scores: Common Concerns What do new cut scores mean for accountability?

    2. Quick cut score overview The State Board of Education adopted new cut scores. These new scores indicate whether or not a student is on track for career and college (11th grade) or on track for success in the next grade (3-8th grade). Last step in a series of initiatives to increase content standards to better prepare Michigan students for postsecondary success.

    3. How do we know the scores mean career and college ready? Used data from Michigan postsecondary institutions Found the score on the MME that predicted success in a student’s first credit-bearing course in postsecondary education. Mapped backward from the MME to the MEAP.

    4. What is the impact on accountability? Ranking systems: unaffected (rankings use standardized scale scores, not percent proficient). AYP: dramatically impacted; percent proficient by school drops considerably; working to reset AMOs, etc. Educator evaluations: not necessarily impacted; evaluations require “growth” data and still have growth data

    5. What about two year averaging and four year trends? MDE retroactively applied cut scores to all assessment files Can estimate two year averaging and four year improvement trends using the new cut scores

    6. I used to have a higher percent of students proficient than the neighboring district; now I don’t! Depends on where student scale scores were clustered. If scores were clustered near the old cut score, without a distribution in the upper scale scores, district may not see a proportional representation in the proficient category under new cut scores.

    7. How many more questions do my students have to get right now? Not a meaningful way to think about student improvement. Tests are not scored on a simple “number of questions” correct metric. Item and test difficulty are included. Example: Two tests with six items each. One test has extremely hard items. One has extremely easy items. Is a 3/6 (or 50% correct) score the same?

    8. Why did we do this now? Michigan’s overall focus on increasing the preparation of our students for career and college. Need to be more honest about the performance of our students. Aligns well with new federal requirements.

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